CVE-2023-54298

kernel: thermal: intel: quark_dts: fix error pointer dereference

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 30, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

An error pointer dereference was found in the Intel Quark thermal driver. When alloc_soc_dts() fails and returns an error pointer, attempting to free it causes a kernel crash.

Statement

This affects Intel Quark SoC platforms only, which are embedded/IoT devices not commonly found in enterprise environments. The crash occurs only on allocation failure during thermal subsystem initialization.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 3.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-763 · Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference